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In this photo taken on November 5, 2016, a Myanmar vendor sells pirated copies of movies outside the Waziya cinema, Yangon's oldest movie house located in the cinema row of Myanmar's former capital during the Memory international film heritage festival.
The movie house, built in the 1920s during the British colonial era, was termporarily revived for the film festival. Waziya is a rare relic from a golden age of movie-making that dazzled audiences more than half a century ago. Myanmar's film industry, once the most vibrant and prolific in the region, shrivelled under a military regime that smothered the arts and ravaged the economy during its 50-year reign. / AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACADROMEO GACAD/AFP/Getty Images